ShortDocs

Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced in response to a prompt from Third Coast for the ShortDocs Competition, hosted between 2003 and 2016. Each year ushered in a new set of rules, new creative partners, and ever-more magical results.

The Commute

As she takes the train home from Penn Station, one anonymous woman gets an uncomfortable surprise.
Voice actor: Emily Duncan

Life Drive

In 1961 during the fascist regime in Portugal, a group of political prisoners escape from a fortress prison in a bullet proof Chrysler Imperial - the car that belonged to the dictator himself.
Voiceover by Jay Buettner; Additional voice by Carlos Patrão.

The Trophy

A man returns, victorious, from the hunt. Curious onlookers react to the killing. But they're not all looking at the same animal.

Badlands

A paddle down the Red Deer River in Canada's Badlands leads to a reflection on past worlds and the mysteries nature keeps from us.

The Nature of Engagement

A thought experiment and an anecdote come together to illuminate the challenges of cross-cultural engagement, particularly in conservation work.

He Gets His Girl

Barbara & Jim fell in love, got married, and began building their life together, but things didn't turn out exactly as planned.

It's Coming

Something is coming for a man struggling to survive - is it Spring, Redemption, Revenge or Death?

Why Me eM yhW

Darrell finds out that you can't trust anyone. Not even yourself.

  • 2016
  • 03:00

Fish Out of water

An Inuit artist on the ritual that connects him with the childhood he lost, and a culture he longs to remember.

One Noir Moment

The story of a relationship with reference to our relationship to the planet.
Written and narrated by James Whitman.